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Arghh

  • Published July 18th, 2007 in Rant

On Windows you can’t:

  • Rename or move a file while being used/played;
  • Rename or move a directory if command line shell is inside that directory or an explorer window is open on that directory;

These things probably top at the most annoying things in Windows. It drives me mad!


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  1. nuno Povoa
    Published at July 18th, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    oh, I have a few others:

    1) make the built-in firewall be device dependent. if you turn it off it’s off on the entire system, ethernet, wifi, vmware virtual nics… no wonder no one in his/her right mind depends on it.

    2) rename a file and automatically leave the extension out of the selection.

    3) make the system learn with time that every time I launch a certain app I want it on the 2nd core. (okay, so maybe no other OS does that either…but it sure as hell would be nice to implement!)

  2. fabiopedrosa
    Published at July 18th, 2007 at 10:27 pm

    Replying to the original post:

    I use Vista, and both of them are “fixed”.
    Even so, I think the first one (moving a used file) isn’t unique to Windows, or is it?
    I guess the applications are the ones that open the access to the file and don’t release it until the application closes or moves to another file (WMP for instance). As a lot of modern OS, the file access is made by path, if you want to move the file, you clearly don’t want to break current access to the file.
    The second is clearly a old Windows fault.

  3. mlopes
    Published at July 18th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    Fabio,

    The access to a file is down to the filesystem level.

    Open iTunes on Mac OS X and start playing a music. Move the very same file to another folder, rename it, do whatever you want to. The music keeps playing and the file is moved/renamed.

    It’s definitely a Windows shortcoming. As for Vista, corrects that and adds a lot of other annoyances. I’d rather live with XP + those 2 annoyances than with Vista.

  4. Eiras
    Published at July 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am

    Moving or renaming a file is the media player’s limitation, which keeps the file locked.